Paterson woman escapes armed robbery at bus stop

PATERSON — Three young men threatened to rob a city woman at gunpoint after she got off a bus in the 4th Ward early Wednesday morning, but the suspects became nervous and fled before they took anything, police said.

The woman, who is in her 40s, got off the bus at the corner of Broadway and East 23rd Street at about 12:50 am, said Sgt. Louis Esposito. That's when the suspects confronted her and demanded her belongings as one of them pulled a gun, he said.